My Time Capsule has stopped backing up.

It hasn't backed up now for 44 days. I've tried everything - I have the latest firmware, I've tried resetting all of the settings but nothing seems to work. Can someone shed any light on this?
It is connected to my existing wireless network.

jasonbetts wrote:
It hasn't backed up now for 44 days.
This may not show you anything useful, but I'd try requesting that Time Machine back up ("Back Up Now" from the Time Machine menu), then open the Console utility and look in "system.log" for messages tagged with "backupd".

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